Salt-distributer.



No. 788,902 PATENTED MAY 2, 1905. A. J. .HAUS & A. w. LAABS.

SALT DISTRIBUTER.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1904.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented. May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

' ALBERT J. HAUS AND ALBERT LAABS, OF LAWLER, IOTVA.

SA LT-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,902, dated May 2,1905.

Application filed September 28, 1904. Serial No. 226,414.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT J. HAUS and ALBERT W. LAABS, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of La'wler, in the county of Chickasaw andState of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Salt-Distributer, ofwhich the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for distributing saltto fodder or the like discharged from a threshing-machineor shredder,the object being to providea distributer that will work equally wellwith dry salt and damp or lumpy salt.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the general description.

We will describe a salt-distrib uter embodying our invention and thenpoint out the novel features in the appended claims. Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3 of asalt-distributer embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a side View thereof.Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4: is a planview.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates the top of a shredder,threshing-machine, or the like of any well-known type, below which isthe usual fan-blower 6, operating in a blowercasing 7. Extended upwardfrom the top 5 are standards 8, which support a salt-hopper 9. thebottom of which is rounded or curved and is provided with a longitudinaloutlet 10, which gradually increases in width from one end tothe other,so that the outlet of salt may be regulated by means of a sliding cover11, which passes outward through an opening in one of the standards 8.

Passing through the hopper 9 is a shaft 12, which may be driven by anysuitable means. As here shown it is provided with a bandwheel 13, fromwhich a band extends to a driving-wheel. (Not shown.) Extended outwardfrom the shaft, within the hopper, are stirrer-- arms 14: and havingreciprocating motion across the outlet 10, and at the under side of thehopper is a breaker, consisting of a horizontal bar 15. one end, 16, ofwhich is ex tended downward and engages in a bearing 17, while the otherend extends downward, as indicated at 18, and then outward through abearing in the standard 8, and from the outer end a crank portion 19extends upward to a pivotal connection with one end of a link 2-0, theother end of said link 20 being pivotally connected to a crank 21 on theshaft 12. The breaker-bar extends through slots in the opposite walls ofa funnel-shaped receiver 22, with which the outlet 10 communicates, andfrom this receiver a spout 23 extends downward into the blower-casing.

In the operation as the shaft 12 is rotated the arms 14 will thoroughlystir up the salt in the hopper 9, and the salt will pass through theoutlet 10 or any portion thereof that may be open and thence pass to theblower-casing. As the shaft rotates the breaker-bar 15 will beoscillated or moved back and forth across the outlet, thus breaking upany chunks of salt that may become clogged or suspended in the outlet.As the fodder enters at the point m, Fig. 1, andpasses through theblower-casing the fine salt will be thoroughly mixed therewith.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a blower arranged in ashredder or the like, of a hopper having an outlet-opening in its lowerportion, said outlet being of increasing width from one end to theother, a regulating-slide for said outlet, a pipe providingcommunication between the outlet and the blower-casing, a shaft extendedthrough the hopper, outwardly-extended arms on said shaft, a breaker-bararranged below the hopper, an upwardly-extended crank-arm havingconnection with said bar, a crank on the shaft, and a link connectionbetween said crank on the shaft and the first-named crank.

2. The combination with the blower and blower-casing of a fodder device,of standards, a hopper supported by said standards and having an outletin its lower portion, a sliding cover for said outlet, a receiverarranged bea crank on said shaft, and a link connection between sai'dcrank and the first-named crank. In testimony whereof we have signed our1 names to this specification in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

ALBERT J. HAUS. ALBERT V. LAABS.

WVitnesses:

WM. KILOHER, S. F. BENZ.

